Turbulence Structure and Vortex Dynamics (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Motion and expansion of a viscous vortex ring: elliptical slowing down and diffusive expansion Yasuhide Fukumoto and H. K. Moffatt; 2. Stretching and compression of vorticity in the 3D Euler equations J. D. Gibbon, B. Galanti and R. M. Kerr; 3. Structure of a new family of vortices of stretched non-axisymmetric vortices Stephane le Dizes; 4. Core dynamics of a coherent structure: a prototypical physical-space cascade mechanism? Dhoorjaty S. Pradeep and Fazle Hussain; 5. Fundamental instabilities in spatially-developing wing wakes and temporally-developing vortex pairs C. H. K. Williamson, T. Leweke and G. D. Miller; 6. Vortex lines and vortex triangles in superfluid helium Carlo F. Barenghi; 7. Evolution of localized packets of vorticity and scalar in turbulence A. Leonard; 8. Vortical structure and modelling of turbulence E. A. Novikov; 9. The issue of local isotropy of velocity and scalar turbulent fields Z. Warhaft; 10. Near-singular flow structure: dissipation and eduction J. C. Vassilicos; 11. Vortex stretching versus production of strain/dissipation Arkaday Tsinober; 12. Dynamics and statistics of vortical eddies in turbulence J. C. R. Hunt; 13. Stability of vortex structures in a rotating frame Claude Cambon; 14. LES and vortex topology in shear and rotating flows Marcel Lesieur, Pierre Comte and Olivier Metais; 15. Conditional mode elimination with asymptotic freedom for isotropic turbulence at large Reynolds numbers David McComb and Craig Johnston.